Song Mai smiled, but the words she was about to say remained unspoken.
"It's okay...you go ahead and do your work."
After saying that, she hung up the phone.
However, the man called the next second.
"Songmai".
"Um?"
Song Mai was frantically messaging Lin Ran, but the girl seemed to be asleep or something, because she didn't get a reply after waiting a while. She sent a second message, but still no reply.
The man on the phone sounded worried: "What happened?"
Song Mai slapped the back of her head, realizing she had really lost her mind. She had lost her temper just now; how could she have called him?
This is clearly her own problem. She and he aren't even friends, so why would she bother him?
She quickly explained, "It's alright, I can handle it myself. You go ahead and do your thing, I won't bother you anymore."
After saying that, she was about to hang up the phone again.
Just as his finger was about to touch the hang-up button, the man's voice suddenly came from the receiver.
"Songmai".
He pronounced those two words very softly, and Song Mai wondered if it was just her imagination, but she felt there was a hint of helplessness in his voice. In the empty and quiet auditorium, his voice drifted and lingered, eventually settling in her heart.
A sense of romance and tenderness arose out of nowhere.
Her breath hitched for a moment.
The man, still waiting for her response, spoke again: "Where is she?"
Song Mai suddenly came to her senses and said, "I'm here."
Unexpectedly, the man said next, "At least for the past year, you are my wife in name only, and I am your husband. There are many things I can do to help you, and I will try my best to do so. So, tell me, what trouble have you encountered?"
The man's words were brief and powerful, as if they had given Song Mai an invisible force of support, gradually calming her panicked heart.
She recounted everything that had happened, clearly and logically explaining the sequence of events to Chu Xing.
After hearing the woman's words, Chu Xing remained silent for a few seconds.
"Does your company still have employees?"
Song Mai pursed her lips, her heart filled with anxiety.
"I'm not sure either. Sometimes people work late and there are still people at this time, but there aren't people at this time every day, so..."
Chu Xing pondered for a moment, then stopped what he was doing and quickly came up with a solution.
"Do you have these documents on your company computer? If so, could you ask a trusted colleague to go back to the office and send you a copy?"
Songmai provides each employee with two work computers: a desktop computer and a laptop computer. The desktop computer is used daily, while the laptop computer is taken with the employee when traveling on business.
Song Mai bit her lip; she had thought of this method before.
"No, the computers provided by our company cannot connect to the external network. Even if someone comes to the company to send it to me, my laptop cannot connect to the company's intranet and I will not receive it."
Chu Xing frowned, repeatedly recalling what Song Mai had just said.
Are there any other feasible solutions?
After a while, his hand, which was fiddling with the title page of the document on the table, suddenly stopped.
"What about paper documents?"
Song Mai said somewhat embarrassedly, "Actually, I called just now to ask if it would be convenient for you to send me a copy of the paper document, but since it would be so late for you to come all the way across the city, I thought I'd better not. I'll think of another way myself."
The more she thought about it, the more unrealistic it seemed. Was she really going to ask him to take a train all night to bring her the documents?
Chu Xing didn't say anything and simply closed the laptop.
"I'm an outsider and it's inconvenient for me to come into your company. Could you find someone you trust to retrieve the paper documents, and I'll deliver them to you?"
He spoke very casually, as if it were nothing more than a simple task for him.
Song Mai was so moved she almost cried.
"No need for that, it's too much trouble for you, and besides..."
However, before she could finish speaking, the man interrupted her again, saying, "You don't need to worry about it, I'll handle it. Go back to the hotel and rest now, send me your location, and I'll call you when I'm almost there."
He paused for a moment, then kindly reminded the user, "Each USB drive has a unique serial number, which will be displayed when it is connected to the computer."
After saying that, the man hung up the phone without any hesitation this time.
Chu Xing casually put on the black coat on the sofa and made a phone call to Assistant Lu as he left.
"Get me a discreet car and wait for me downstairs at her company."
Although Assistant Lu didn't know what had happened, upon hearing his boss's words, he vaguely sensed that his boss was going to work hard for love, and agreed without saying a word.
Chu Xing hailed a taxi downstairs in the residential area and had to pay double the price to convince the driver, who was about to go home, to do one more fare.
Seeing that Lin Ran had not replied to her messages, Song Mai made several phone calls to her in succession.
Fortunately, Lin Ran finally answered after she dialed seven or eight times in a row.
"My goodness, what's going on? Weren't you away on a business trip? Why are you calling me all of a sudden?"
Song Mai didn't have time to explain in detail, only giving a general overview, before asking her to hurry back to the company to help out.
"Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda! Ranran, you're the best! If you hadn't saved me, I really would have died this time. I'll definitely treat you to something delicious when I get back!"
Lin Ran couldn't resist her persistent pleading and agreed after only a few words.
"Okay, I got it, I'll go right now, alright?"
Song Mai thanked her again and again before hanging up the phone.
Fortunately, Lin Ran lives relatively close to the company, so a trip there won't take too long.
After resolving everything, Song Mai slowly tightened her grip on her phone, recalling Chu Xing's words before hanging up, feeling as if she had been suddenly awakened.
She said something seemed off.
So that's where the problem lies.
She immediately plugged the USB drive back into the computer's USB port and started clicking the mouse rapidly on the computer screen.
The serial number of the USB drive was found in no time.
She opened her previous purchase history again. Fortunately, it wasn't too late. When Song Mai contacted the seller, the seller replied to her message not long after, sending her all the production dates, batch numbers, serial numbers, and other details of the USB drives she had previously purchased.
She didn't even need to compare them much; she noticed at a glance that the two numbers were completely different.
Furthermore, the last four digits of the serial number indicate the year of manufacture, and the USB drive she bought is manufactured a full year apart from the USB drive she is currently holding.
So the truth came out: it wasn't that her USB drive malfunctioned at the crucial moment, but that she was set up!
This USB drive doesn't belong to her at all, so how could it contain the files she wants?
A surge of anger welled up in Song Mai's heart, and she slammed her fist on the table as if she felt no pain.
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